Pages
-
-
Title
-
A Change in a Great Firm: Bullene, Moore, Emery & Co. Now Emery, Bird, Thayer & Co.
-
Description
-
Portraits (of L. T. Moore, J. T. Bird, W. B. Thayer [or William Bridges Thayer], and J. C. Fennell) and article about the change in name of the Bullene, Moore, Emery & Company dry goods store in 1895 to the Emery, Bird, Thayer & Company dry goods store due to the death of T. B. Bullene and retirement of the ailing L. T. Moore (coming to Kansas City in 1871 from Alabama as a member of the firm) and planning to "leave soon for a Southern health resort."
-
Date
-
1895-01-14
-
Object Type
-
Newspaper Article
-
-
Title
-
Bullene, Moore, Emery, and Co.
-
Description
-
Spring and Summer catalog of fashions and other items sold by the Kansas City company of Bullene, Moore, Emery, and Company. Includes an index by item type and has numerous illustrations. Includes fashion accessories for men, women, and children as well as notions and materials for dressmaking.
-
Date
-
1888
-
Object Type
-
Pamphlet
-
-
Title
-
Emery Bird Thayer
-
Description
-
File contains photos and information on the Emery, Bird, Thayer Company and store.
-
Object Type
-
Vertical File
-
-
Title
-
Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Dictionary
-
Description
-
Photo and bio of William Whiting Atwill, or William Atwill, "advertising manager" for the Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry Goods Company, starting in business in Kansas City with the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad in the 1890s.
-
Date
-
1902
-
Object Type
-
Book
-
-
Title
-
Stardust Memories
-
Description
-
Mrs. Hughes Porter has kept a collection of bids" or invitations she received to parties at the Jack O'Lantern. Bids were mailed or were exchanged by hand at "Emery's Porch," a popular singles' meeting place at the Walnut Street entrance. A ledger on a table just inside the door catalogued names and messages between friends."
-
Date
-
1980-12-14
-
Object Type
-
Newspaper Article
-
-
Title
-
Drawing of Stable and Storehouse
-
Description
-
Drawing of a stable and storehouse to be built for the Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry Goods Company, done by Van Brunt and Howe, architects.
-
Date
-
1900-03
-
Object Type
-
Magazine Article
-
-
Title
-
Obituary for Hervey Conley Adams
-
Description
-
Obituary for Hervey Conley Adams, or Hervey Adams, an assistant vice-president and credit manager of the Emery, Bird, Thayer department store company, dying on December 7, 1960.
-
Date
-
1960-12-08
-
Object Type
-
Newspaper Article
-
-
Title
-
Overflow at Emery, Bird, Thayer
-
Description
-
Fainting shoppers and long lines at the closing sale of the Downtown branch of the clothing store at 907 Walnut Street.
-
Date
-
1968-08-08
-
Object Type
-
Newspaper Article
-
-
Title
-
Emery, Bird, Thayer Store
-
Description
-
Partial view of the front of the Country Club Plaza Emery, Bird, Thayer store, located at 47th Street and Broadway Boulevard. Federal Sign and Signal Corporation received an award for excellence in their design of the illuminated sign pictured here.
-
Date
-
1964
-
Object Type
-
Photograph
-
-
Title
-
Nurse and Hospital Exhibit
-
Description
-
Interior view of an exhibit which features hospitals and nursing and includes a mannequin in a nurse's uniform. Sign located in back reads: "Emery Bird's Proudly Presents" and poster by nurse reads: "Kansas City Pays Tribute to it's Hospitals & Nurses, May 12, 1946, National Hospital Day." Smaller placard in exhibit reads: "This exhibit prepared by the nurses at the General Hospital, No.1."
-
Date
-
1946
-
Object Type
-
Photograph
-
-
Title
-
Emery, Bird, Thayer Building
-
Description
-
View of the Emery Bird Thayer Building looking northwest near Grand and 11th Street. The first Bryant Building can also be seen.
-
Date
-
1901
-
Object Type
-
Photograph
-
-
Title
-
Emery, Bird, Thayer Building
-
Description
-
View looking northeast of the Emery, Bird, Thayer Building, once located at Walnut and 11th streets.
-
Date
-
1895
-
Object Type
-
Photograph
-
-
Title
-
Emery, Bird, Thayer Building Exterior Details
-
Description
-
Close-up view of exterior details with a caduceus of the Emery, Bird, & Thayer department store on 11th Street between Grand Avenue and Walnut.
-
Date
-
1930
-
Object Type
-
Photograph
-
-
Title
-
Emery, Bird, Thayer Building Exterior Details
-
Description
-
Close-up view of exterior details of a caduceus of the Emery, Bird, Thayer department store building on 11th Street between Walnut and Grand Avenue.
-
Date
-
1930
-
Object Type
-
Photograph
Pages